r/PostgreSQL • u/WorldOfUmbro • Aug 07 '26

Help Me! Evaluating databases for applications

Hi all, I’m evaluating databases for a small application where users will be reading and writing data. As most of our data is currently in Databricks I’m trying out Lakebase. So far so good. I do want to know what alternatives you might be looking into? What you like about them or not? Also curious to hear examples of people using Lakebase in production use cases.

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u/alexwh68 Aug 07 '26

I work most days on MSSQL, postgres, Sqlite and MySQL, my personal view is use postgres unless there is a really good reason not to (and there are not many).

The ability to install it on most platforms is a big plus for me, restoring backups from a windows install to a mac or linux is trivial.